Friction-clutch.



PATENTED JUNE 25, 1907.

C. WUST-KUNZ. FRICTION CLUTCH.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 31,1904.

said friction clutches have bearings 18 in shaft 1, whereas the pulley 3 to The purpose of the lever-8 18 to the pins 16 and springs 17, that is to'say,

CASPAR wUsr-KUNz, o'F

PATENT OFFICE.

SEEBACH, NEAR zinucn, SWITZERLAND.

FRICTION-CLUTCH.

To all whom'it may concern.- Beit known that'I, a citizen of the Swiss CAsPA'R WiisT-KUNZ, I Republic, residing at Seebach, near Zurich, Switzerland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Friction-Clutches, of which the following is a specification. 4 's invention relates to an improved clutch for use with engines which are inca-- pable of starting while the load is on, the said clutch being adapted to automatically couple the engine with a pulley or the like when the former has attained a certain speed, so that the engine can 'be'started without the load and Will then-automatically take the full load when it has runup to a certain number of revolutions.

The invention is drawings, in which Figure 1 is a cross-section of the clutch, Fig. 2 a side Viewthereof, and Fig. 3 a section on the line A-Bof Fig. 2.

The coupling disk 2 is fixed to the motor be driven is mounted loosely on the latter. To the disk' 2 are screwed two gudgeons 4 and 5, about which two weights 6 and respectively are adapted .to oscillate. The line connecting the center of ravity of each weighted lever and its pivotel center-is radial to the axis of the driving member. Between the said wei hts, which lie in: different planes, the double-armed lever 8 is mounted on a pivot 9 passing through a slot in the weight 7, and concentric with the motor shaft. The said lever 8 is provided with two slots 10 and11 at opposite ends, into which the respective pin 12 or 13 on the oscillating weights engage. render the centrifugal throw of the two weights uniform. The hubs 14 and 14 'ofthe Wei hts 6 and 7 are flattened on opposite sides an abut against the'friction clutches of segments 15 in such a manner, that the throw of'the 0s cillating weights causes the said friction clutches 15 tobe pushedapart by-the rotation of the hubs 14 and 14 and ressed against the'flange of the pulley 3. 1 he two illustrated in the annexed the disk 2.(Fig.. 3) and are held by meansof Specification of Letters Patent.-' Application iiled May 31. 1904. Serial No. 21Q,542.

the work done when the driving Patented June 25, 1907.

14 and 14. Instead of being loosely mounted on the hub of the disk 2 the pulley 3 can be keyed to a shaft forming a the motor shaft. 4

The action of the clutch is as follows: When the motor starts the disk 2 is revolved but not the pulle 3. As soon, however, as the Weights 6 ancl 7 have acquired suihcie'nt moment-um theyoscillate about their pivots. 4 and 5 and their hubs '14.and 14 operate the friction clutches 15 in such a manner, that the latterbeco'me operative, this taking place when the, motor "has reached ajcerta'in number' of revolutions. As already indicated, the object of the lever 8 is to insureperfectly uniform, ressureon the two frictionsegments. it is obvious that the clutch is automatically disengaged when the number of revolutionsfalls to such an extent that the throw of the weights and the rotation of the hubs 14 and 14 become insufiicient'to maintain operative segments and the pulley 3. With this clutch instarting themachine is divided into two successive acts,,namelythat of startingthe that of taking up the load. The clutch thus allows, forinstance, ofdirectly connecting mains used for electric lighting with, mono phase alternating motors for operating elevators or the like, since the clutch allows of starting such mo tors.without an excessive current, the driving mechanism being automatically thrown into gear a few seconds after the motor has been started. I claim? 1'1 The combination of a friction clutch 'coim prising an exterior driven member andfsegmental interior members, separating said interior exterior member, a rotatory driving inernhe'r carrying said segmentalmembers, weighted. levers pivoted eccentrically on said dri member; their pivots being symmetrically placed, means connecting'said weighted le-' vers to orm. a mutually alanc'ing system member is at rest the line connecting the center of each Weighted lever and its pivot radial to the'axis of the driving member, and

avity of forced against the flattened sides of the hubs prolongation of 5 5 contact between the friction motor without the load and- I .Q springs norma y: members 'froln"-.tl1'. e

whereby IOO center is projecting shoulders on each side of each 2 In witness whereoflhave signed this speclwhen the driving member rot-ates at and Weighted lever adapted respectively to bear ficetion in the presence Of two Witnesses.

against and move mt o operative-position the i correspending segmental clutch members B' WUSLKUNZ Witnesses above a predetermined speed in the one 01' JOSEPH SIMON,

other direction N. A. CLEMENT. 

